Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

Yep. This would be my suggestion:

sed -i.bak "s/old_code/new_code/g" *.php

Regards,
Janky Jay, III

On 9/14/25 05:23PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> Thanks, now that you mention it, even a vim macro could do some of 
> the work.
>
> Or that classic perl one liner: perl -pi -e s/old/new/g <filename pattern>
>
> Joe
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM P.J. Tezza <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for working on this - I kind of thought I'd be doing it,
>     but you beat me to it!
>
>     Having done this type of work in the past, here is my recommendation:
>
>     If there is is anything that can be done with search and replace
>     across files, use it. Even if there are a few different forms to
>     be changed, you may be able to run the search and replace once for
>     each form. The work often goes faster, it is less error prone and
>     if you later find a mistake, it is usually easier to resolve.
>
>     PJ
>
>     On 9/14/25 3:52 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>>     Apart from redefining the top level $maia_sql_dsn in config.php,
>>     most of the effort for my task is replacing code that looks like
>>     this:
>>     --
>>      $res = $sth->execute();
>>     if ($row = $res->fetchrow()) {
>>     -- 
>>     with code that looks like this:
>>     --
>>      $sth->execute();
>>     if ($row = $sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
>>     --
>>     on a file by file basis since every instance is a little
>>     different. It looks like there are a few dozen such files to fix.
>>
>>     It's not much, but it's honest work.
>>
>>     Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM jjs - mainphrame
>>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>         Since nobody else has committed to the effort, I'm willing to
>>         at least give it a try.
>>
>>         I don't have unlimited time, but I'm going to start looking
>>         into updating the maia codebase to make it compatible with php 8.
>>
>>         If anybody else wants to contribute, I'd welcome the help.
>>
>>         Joe
>>
>>
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